Research Article

A Novel Approach for Detecting DGA-Based Botnets in DNS Queries Using Machine Learning Techniques

Table 4

Comparison of different algorithms without PCA feature.

Name algorithmspredicted_dga actual_dgapredicted_dga actual_legitpredicted_legit actual_dgapredicted_legit actual_legit

Decision tree23060 (92.5%)1879 (7.5%)1541 (6.2%)23443 (93.8%)
Random forest22741 (91.7%)2066 (8.3%)1587 (6.4%)23378 (93.6%)
SVM22362 (89.7%)2555 (10.3%)1885 (7.5%)23299 (92.5%)
Logistic regression22381 (89.3%)2694 (10.7%)2753 (11%)22362 (89%)